Thursday, April 28, 2016

Friends of the Library Sale - Day 1 ~ The New Banana and Gel Cookery Booklets

The New Banana, published in 1931. After a quick introduction to the banana - the recipes begin with The Banana for Breakfast which consist of griddle cakes and banana toast, followed by The Banana for Luncheon and Dinner which offers bananas with bacon (see back cover photo), fritters and baked bananas.

A few suggestions for The Banana with Meats include glazed bananas with pineapple, banana applesauce or banana stuffed baked apples, while The Banana for Salads section provides a banana & cabbage salad, a frozen banana salad or a banana and tomato salad.  In Hot Breads and Cakes a few of the options are muffins, tea cakes and a banana cake with banana frosting.

The Banana for Desserts dishes out mousse, a Charlotte, cream tarts, banana cream pie, a banana caramel custard and the golden loaf (bananas, marshmallows, pineapple juice, whipped cream and lady fingers), with the final chapter, The Banana in Sandwiches extolling spreads made with bananas and peanut butter, liverwurst, deviled ham, cream cheese & jelly or cottage cheese.

Gel-Cookery Recipe Book, published in 1959. The slim pamphlet was distributed by Knox Gelatine and begins with a primer on the types of gelatin dishes: 1) basic -as a drink, 2) whips - chilled &beaten until light & fluffy, 3) sponges or snows - chilled & beaten with egg whites 4) custards - chilled with the addition of egg yolks and/or egg whites and 5) whipped cream mixes - chilled custard with whipped cream folded in.

The recipes start off with Salads ~ aspic (tomato, beef, chicken, BBQ or vegetable), a spiced peach salad, Waldorf, savory cottage cheese salad, the original perfection salad, jellied cream of chicken and a shrimp chili mold, followed by Main Dishes which consist of a ham & cheese loaf, mousse (chicken or salmon) or a tuna fish mold.

For Desserts a few of the options include chiffon pies (lemon, coconut or Nesselrode), a brown derby black bottom pie, pineapple whip, lemon snow, the pixie pie (coconut crust with filled with evaporated milk, unsweetened chocolate, eggs & vanilla), chocolate mocha sponge, a no bake cheesecake and a chocolate Bavarian cream. The last section touches on Candy ~ Turkish delight or marshmallows.



Back cover of banana booklet ~ banana & bacon:


Full cover spread ~ Gel cookery ~


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